Registered Nurse - Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Selectminds; Bay City (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

$10,000 sign-on bonus

Job summary

McLaren Health Care in Michigan is seeking a Critical Care Registered Nurse for the Surgical ICU to deliver bedside nursing care and implement physician orders. You will supervise nursing staff and collaborate to ensure high‑quality patient outcomes.

Responsibilities include leading care planning, ensuring evidence-based practice, supervising team members, and participating in discharge planning and unit quality initiatives during night shifts.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with active MI license.
• Current BLS certification from AHA or Red Cross.
• ACLS and Critical Care courses completed within 12 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with physician to plan care and return patient to health.
• Delegates tasks and coordinates nursing care to team members.
• Precepts/mentors new staff and students; leads unit activities.
• Participates in discharge/transfer planning and conferences.
• Implements evidence-based practice and monitors care quality.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Delegation

Bedside care

Education

Accredited nursing program graduate

Michigan nursing license

Tools

ACLS

BLS

Basic Dysrhythmia

Job description

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

Registered Nurse - Surgical Intensive Care Unit

$10,000.00 sign on bonus for RN's with at least one year of ICU experience.

Position Summary:
Collaborates with physician to provide a plan of care that will return the patient to optimal health. Provides bedside nursing care and carries out medical orders. Delegates to and oversees Nurse Assistant, Patient Care Associate, OB Care Associate, Surgical Service Assistant, Nursing Clerk and Psychiatric Tech functions. Responsible for evaluating effectiveness of care plan.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Assumes responsibility for a leadership role encompassing:

• Integrating evidence-based knowledge into practice.
• Delegation and coordination of tasks and assignments of nursing care.
• Facilitates/participates in patient conferences.
• Identifies and provides the means to meet patients’ ongoing and discharge/transfer teaching needs by communicating with the appropriate resource persons and attending discharge/transfer planning conferences.
• Assumes the responsibility for professional growth by seeking out educational opportunities and utilizing programs in the hospital or elsewherein the community.
• Teaches and/or guides professional and ancillary personnel.
• Precepts/mentors new employees and students.
• Functions as a team leader to ensure proper patient placement and delegation of assignments.
• Performs other related duties as required and directed.

Unit Based ICU:

Effectively manages the critical care of the patient with hemodynamic monitoring

Accurately and effectively administers high risk medications

Effectively monitors and manages the care of the patient with hemodynamic instability

Effectively monitors and manages the care of the patient with respiratory instability including mechanical ventilation

Actively participates in unit quality measures

Incorporates Evidence Based Practice in patient care

Ability to promote compassion and a therapeutic environment

Required:

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing and holding a current license to practice in the state of Michigan.

BLS issued by American Heart Association or Red Cross

Must satisfactorily complete ACLS course and Critical Care course within one year of hire/transfer

Must satisfactorily complete first available Basic Dysrhythmia course

Preferred

Six-month experience in acute care setting or equivalent

Critical Care Registered Nurse

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Requisition ID: 26004025
• Daily Work Times: 7pm - 7:30am
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status,national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classificationprotected by law.